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By Liz Moyer
Investing.com — U.S. stocks were mixed as Treasury yields were on the rise, pressuring growth stocks and big tech.
At 10:21 ET (14:21 GMT), the was up 68 points or 0.2%, while the was down 0.1% and the was down 0.5%.
The yield on the rose above 4% to 4.05%, while the yield on the was 3.573%. Investors are less worried about the banking sector after the weekend deal by Raleigh, N.C.-based First Citizens BancShares Inc (NASDAQ:) to buy parts of the failed Silicon Valley Bank.
The news lifted bank stocks on Monday and fueled gains for the Dow.
Futures traders an even chance of the Federal Reserve lifting interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point or leaving them unchanged when it meets in May.
came in stronger than expected despite the recent banking turmoil. The reading was 104.2 versus expectations of 101 for March.
Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr is appearing in the Senate to testify in the first of several hearings about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd ADR (NYSE:) shares rose 7.6% after the Chinese e-commerce firm said it plans to split into six units covering e-commerce, media and the cloud. Each unit will have the ability to raise funding and go public, the company said.
Shares of ride-hailing firm LYFT Inc (NASDAQ:) rose 2.7% after it said its co-founders would step away from day-to-day management and former Amazon (NASDAQ:) executive David Risher would be its new CEO.
Oil was rising. were up 0.7% to $73.30 a barrel, while crude was up 0.5% to $78.17 a barrel. were up 0.6% to $1982.
